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None of us really know when our last moment on this planet will come or what we’ll say when it does—that is, if we manage to say anything at all. But some people have left behind final words so unforgettable that they’ve stayed with us long after they’re gone.
A few of these parting lines, from funny to touching, have even made their way into this popular Reddit thread. Scroll down to read them and upvote the ones you’d want to be remembered by!
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#1
I like my Gramma's last words.
"My, what a LOVELY party!!"
She was 102 and a half, at home, and the end was very near. Family and friends (including her cardiologist, a close friend of ours) were over for Christmas, and after dinner mom put Gramma to bed. Then everyone gathered in Gramma's room with bottles of wine and champagne, played Big Band music, sang, chatted, passed Gramma wine and bubbly. Eventually everyone retired, and as mom tucked her in, Gramma said "My, what a LOVELY party!" She never woke up. It was a good passing.
#2
Willem Arondeus. “Tell people that homosexuals are not cowards”. He was a Dutch anti-N*zi resistance fighter. Bad a*s.
Serial pacifist 2 months ago (edited)
BP, N a z i is a word that defines a context for God’s sake, we all know what it is and who the as5holes were.
#3
My grandfather wasn't famous but I was with him when he passed. His last words were "Mary, I've missed you" and i tear up and am comforted every time i think of it. Mary was my grandmother's name, she passed about 15 years before him.
#4
Just before hanging, French aristocrat Marquis de Favras read his death warrant and commented “I see that you have made 3 spelling errors.”
#5
Oleksandr Matsievskiy was a Ukrainian sniper who was captured and executed by the russian invaders in late December of 2022. He was standing in what would be his grave. He said "Slava Ukraini" (Glory to Ukraine) and the russians m*rdered him.
#6
As Voliatire was on his deathbed, a priest performed the last rites and asked him if he "rejects Satan and all his deed?" Voltaire said: “MY goodman, now is not the time for making new enemies.”
#7
A 17 year old Yugoslavian girl, Lepa Radic, was caught fighting the N*zis. As they hung a noose around her neck they offered her a reprieve if she were to give up her co conspirators.
She responded by telling them she was not a traitor, and that they would reveal themselves when they avenged her death.
"I am not a traitor of my people. Those whom you are asking about will reveal themselves when they have succeeded in wiping out all you evildoers, to the last man."
#8
My battery is low and it’s getting dark. - Mars rover.
#9
“How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause? Such a fine, sunny day, and I have to go, but what does my death matter, if through us, thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?” - Sophie Scholl
Sophie Scholl was an anti-n*zi political activist who was executed for treason at the age of 21. I highly recommend looking into her story.
#10
The almost final words of writer Roald Dahl, were "You know, I'm not frightened. It's just that I will miss you all so much" to his family. After appearing to fall unconscious the nurse then injected him with morphine to ease his passing and he said his actual last words:
“Ow, f**k!”.
#11
Oscar Wilde: “My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us must go.”
#12
“Surprise me” - Bob Hope
His wife asked him where he wanted to be buried.
#13
"I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have." - Leonardo da Vinci.
Brittania Kelli 2 months ago
That's sad that even Da Vinci suffered from the voice of his inner critic.
#14
“Let’s Roll” Todd Beamer, on board UA flight 93(9/11).
Jrog 2 months ago (edited)
A bit of backstory. Beamer's wife and a friend tried to profit off this, founding a charity and applying for copyright of the phrase "let's roll". The charity was supposed to "counsel kids who lost a parent from terrorist attacks". They started out with about 4 millions in assets, burned cash at the rate of over 1M/yr without many tangible results, rebranded to a new name and ultimately folded just 8 years later, with the new president (herself the wife of another victim of Flight93) complaining about lack of revenue and asking where the rest of the money have gone under the previous tenure. Their track record for the three years of full activity was abysmal, with less than 1/4th of the money going to programs, and 3/4th into fundraising and business expenses, with the "fundraising" costing far more than the actual funds recovered. Their actual programs expenses -from their fiscal documents- amounted to about 250k$/yr, in the form of group retreats with 50 kids at a time.
#15
“If anyone has a message for the Devil, tell me now, for I shall be seeing him shortly.” -Lavinia Fisher, the first female serial k*ller in the US.
Ronstantin 2 months ago
*serial unaliver (Is it just me or is this censorship getting more and more ridiculous? 😄)
#16
"More weight." - Giles Corey, as he was pressed to death for refusing to confess to witchcraft.
lovemy suffolk 2 months ago
A hero! And stubborn. He refused to enter a plea pf guilt because he didn't want the a holes torturing him to get his property and land as per the law regarding the distribution of a guilty persons property at the time Because he didn't plea to anything, h8s children got his land and wealth, not the 'officials ".
#17
"Die, my dear? Why, that's the last thing I'll do!" - Groucho Marx.
#18
During the sinking of the Titanic, a person named Benjamin Guggenheim was offered a life jacket. He refused, saying:
"No thank you, we are dressed in our best and are prepared to go down like gentlemen... But we would like a brandy".
He did not survive the sinking.
#20
I find Marie Antoinette’s last words to be very tragic - on her way to the block she accidentally trod on the executioner’s foot and said “pardon me, sir, I did not mean to do it”.
TribbleThinking 2 months ago
It may not just be simple manners. Everyone tended to be quite nice to executioners, including tipping them. There are many horror stories of botched executions, where the executioner had to make repeated attempts.
#21
"They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance."
Union General John Sedgewick.
Ty Stratton-Quirk 2 months ago
Unfortunately for the General, they weren't aiming at an elephant.
#22
“I’m well done on this side. Turn me over.”
-St. Lawrence (while being burned to death on a gridiron).
#23
Last words are for fools who haven't said enough in life.
-Karl Marx.
#24
Cop k*ller George Appel at the time of his execution in the electric chair, August 9th, 1928.
"Well, gentlemen, you are about to see a baked Appel."
#25
" I die a queen, but I would rather die the wife of Culpepper." Katherine Howard, King Henry VIII teenage bride, who was beheaded for adultery.
#26
I'm going out now. I may be some time.
-Lawrence Oates, on an Antarctic expedition, just before leaving the tent during a blizzard to sacrifice himself and give the other explorers a better chance at survival.
Ray Ceeya (RayCeeYa) 2 months ago
That was Scott's Terra Nova Expedition. They reached the South Pole only to discover that Amundsen beat them there. They all died one by one on the way back. Their diaries were preserved though.
#28
My mom woke up for a moment toward the end, saw the people gathered to say goodbye and her last words were, "Holy s**t!".
Lilybdcsa 2 months ago
In 2015 I found my mother unresponsive. I called for the EMTs and when they were taking her to the hospital, she woke up briefly and said, "what are you doing to me?" Then she faded out again. She died two days later without waking up. She had been talking to my dad for a week before this. (he died in 2013.). so I guess she was ready to go. Her last words still haunt me because I had to make the decision not to put her on life support.
#29
Not really last words last words, but last words to someone. And definitely a funny story imo.
So there used to be this supergroup called cream, consisting of jack Bruce, ginger Baker and Eric Clapton. Bruce and Baker famously hated each other. With a burning passion.
So when Bruce was a few hours from death in 2014, he phoned up close friends to say goodbye. When he called his ex-cream band mate Baker, he told him, “I’m dying, Ginger, f**k you!" and proceeded to then slam down the phone. Baker tried to call back several times, but obv Bruce wouldn’t pick up.
As Bruce always felt baker just had to have the last word in any conversation. So by doing this he knew baker would resent him even more because he could never get baker back.
Serena Myers 2 months ago
Cream, Deep Purple, King Crimson, maybe others I've forgotten, many "colourful" band names in the late '60's.
#30
Oscar-winning actor George Sanders committed s*icide at the age of 65. His suicide note read:
“Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.”
#31
When Warren Zevon, who knew he was dying, was asked by David Letterman if he had any advice for the rest of us, he said “Enjoy every sandwich”.
#32
On his deathbed, Spanish Prime Minister Ramón María Narváez was asked to forgive his enemies, to which he replied:
"I don't need to forgive my enemies — I have had them all shot."
#33
There is an apocryphal story about the last words of jazz drummer Buddy Rich. As he was being prepped for surgery the nurse asked him if there was anything he was allergic to, he replied "Yeah, country music." He never recovered from the surgery and died a couple weeks later.
#34
Spike Milligan upon his death bed
“ I told you I was ill”.
Lucy Covington 2 months ago
Was definitely the epitaph on his gravestone, but not sure they were his last spoken words.
#35
"Eg er kvit or hjarterota, kongen har fødd oss vel", or in English: "There is fat around my heart, the king has fed us well”, said by Tormod Kolbrunarskald as he pulled an arrow out of his heart and saw fat on the arrowhead.
UncleJohn3000 2 months ago (edited)
I'm trying this one my next doctor's visit - "But some of that fat *protects* my heart!"
#36
Galois’ last words “Dry your eyes brother I need all the courage I can have to die at 20”.
Lyone Fein 2 months ago
He was an extraordinary mathematician who, nonetheless was foolish in love and died in a duel.
#37
"I've had 18 straight whiskies...... I think that's the record." - Dylan Thomas.
that_gay_snake 2 months ago
the blood alcohol levels must have been INSANE. ( also sounds like a fun way to go)
#38
"Shoot straight, you bastards! Don't make a mess of it!”
-Breaker Morant.
#39
There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to k*ll me properly.
Cicero.
#40
“How about this for a headline for tomorrow’s paper? French fries.”
James French convicted m*rderer before his execution by electric chair. ( not likely to be after it).
#41
I have always been intrigued by Steve Jobs’ last words “OH WOW. OH WOW.” I wonder what he was seeing.
#42
“I have a terrific headache.”- Franklin Delano Roosevelt seconds before dying of a hemorrhagic stroke.
#43
”I am about to - or I am going to - die: either expression is acceptable.”
Dominique Bouhours (1628-1702) - Priest, essayist, critic and grammarian.
#44
I like Julius Caesar's last words. In the Shakespeare play he says "Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar." The "et tu, Brute" part is based on what we historically think Caesar said, but he was thought to have said it in Greek, "kai su, teknon" which translates to "and thou, child."
However, kai su teknon at that time was used like slang or colloquially to mean "you too, *kid*" in an insulting or condescending manner.
So, it is possible that on being stabbed by his friend and ally and betrayed by his colleagues, Caesar was not lamenting and questioning this betrayal with a melancholy "even *you*, Brutus?" but more giving Brutus the middle finger.
Spencer's slave no longer 2 months ago
I suspect, being Roman and speaking Latin, the "et tu Brute" is Caesar's likely phrase rather than anything in Greek.
#45
"The city is fallen, and I am still alive." - Constantine XI Palaiologos before charging into battle against the Ottoman Empire.
What do you think ?
Beak Hookage 2 months ago (edited)
When my grandfather was on his deathbed and apparently unconscious someone made a remark to Grandma about how she always did what he asked her to. Grandpa said "b******t!", and died.
Alexa Saltz 2 months ago
Sam Kinison. He was alive after the wreck and was arguing with someone unseen - "No! I don't want to go! Why?" Then he calmed down and agreed - "Oh! Ok, alright". He was really something. Gone too soon.
ElfVibratorGlitter 2 months ago
I was really hoping Nathan Hale would be on here, and he was! Yay.
David 2 months ago
There is a documented incident from the Holocaust, when at one of the death camps, when the jews were being led to gas chambers, a rabbi in the group starting singing an ancient Jewish song "We will outlive them, the lord will avenge out souls", and then, he with a group of dozens there starting singing, and the Germans tried beating them to stop, but they didnt stop. While they all dies, their singing distracted the Germans and nearly a dozen people managed to escape past the fence (others tried but were shot). I mean that is some badass defiance until the end
Arthur Waite 2 months ago
Okay, here's something that BP might help me with. I read this 'last words' quote somewhere long ago, always bugged me that I can't remember from who: "At last, the Great Experiment begins." It was in one of Asimov's essays, I think.
Ansi 2 months ago
George Washington Carver, amerikan botanist and inventor
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Joanne Mendonza-Earle 20 hours ago
Last words of Captain McSorley on the Edmund Fitzgerald: We are holding our own.
Antihaarbalsnoepje 2 months ago
Legends say that Dutch naval lieutenant Jan van Speyk said « Then… rather in the air! », moment before he blew up the ship he was on, when his ship was attacked by Belgians during the Belgian revolution in 1831.
Richard Graham 2 months ago
Albert Einstein' was on his deathbed. He very profoundly said his last words. The only person in the room with him was his nurse, who didn't know German. Therefore we will never know the last words of one of the greatest minds.
CanadianDimes 2 months ago
While that's true, we have much more important words from him from the rest of his lifetime. His last words would be interesting, but not historically important. His work is definitely historically and scientifically important. I'm not saying this to be flippant - just in the grand scheme of things, his last words were unlikely to be impactful, especially not the way his work was.
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Scott Rackley 2 months ago
"Yes, hurry it up, you Hoosier bastard! I could kill a dozen men while you're screwing around!" -Carl Panzram
John Dilligaf 2 months ago
"Soldiers, fire!" ....... French Field Marshal Michel Ney, to his own firing squad
Trisec Tebeakesse 2 months ago
I have always been impressed by John Andre. (British spy, hanged during the Revolution.) "It will be a momentary pang."
Falcon on Dizzy 2 months ago
I'm gonna try to make my last words just be "don't b******t nobody when you put my last words down, my last word is 'f**k' and you know it...F**K" then I'd die
Haywood Jablome 2 months ago
Chris Farley's final words were "Please don't leave me", as heard by the prostitute that promptly left him
DadManBlues 2 months ago
'While I was alive, I took care of everything except death; now I have to die, and I am unprepared for that.' - Caesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander the Sixth 'The last word is for the fools who have not spoken enough.' - Karl Marx 'I have not yet told you everything I saw.' - Marco Polo
Beak Hookage 2 months ago (edited)
When my grandfather was on his deathbed and apparently unconscious someone made a remark to Grandma about how she always did what he asked her to. Grandpa said "b******t!", and died.
Alexa Saltz 2 months ago
Sam Kinison. He was alive after the wreck and was arguing with someone unseen - "No! I don't want to go! Why?" Then he calmed down and agreed - "Oh! Ok, alright". He was really something. Gone too soon.
ElfVibratorGlitter 2 months ago
I was really hoping Nathan Hale would be on here, and he was! Yay.
David 2 months ago
There is a documented incident from the Holocaust, when at one of the death camps, when the jews were being led to gas chambers, a rabbi in the group starting singing an ancient Jewish song "We will outlive them, the lord will avenge out souls", and then, he with a group of dozens there starting singing, and the Germans tried beating them to stop, but they didnt stop. While they all dies, their singing distracted the Germans and nearly a dozen people managed to escape past the fence (others tried but were shot). I mean that is some badass defiance until the end
Arthur Waite 2 months ago
Okay, here's something that BP might help me with. I read this 'last words' quote somewhere long ago, always bugged me that I can't remember from who: "At last, the Great Experiment begins." It was in one of Asimov's essays, I think.
Ansi 2 months ago
George Washington Carver, amerikan botanist and inventor
Load More Replies... Joanne Mendonza-Earle 20 hours ago
Last words of Captain McSorley on the Edmund Fitzgerald: We are holding our own.
Antihaarbalsnoepje 2 months ago
Legends say that Dutch naval lieutenant Jan van Speyk said « Then… rather in the air! », moment before he blew up the ship he was on, when his ship was attacked by Belgians during the Belgian revolution in 1831.
Richard Graham 2 months ago
Albert Einstein' was on his deathbed. He very profoundly said his last words. The only person in the room with him was his nurse, who didn't know German. Therefore we will never know the last words of one of the greatest minds.
CanadianDimes 2 months ago
While that's true, we have much more important words from him from the rest of his lifetime. His last words would be interesting, but not historically important. His work is definitely historically and scientifically important. I'm not saying this to be flippant - just in the grand scheme of things, his last words were unlikely to be impactful, especially not the way his work was.
Load More Replies... Scott Rackley 2 months ago
"Yes, hurry it up, you Hoosier bastard! I could kill a dozen men while you're screwing around!" -Carl Panzram
John Dilligaf 2 months ago
"Soldiers, fire!" ....... French Field Marshal Michel Ney, to his own firing squad
Trisec Tebeakesse 2 months ago
I have always been impressed by John Andre. (British spy, hanged during the Revolution.) "It will be a momentary pang."
Falcon on Dizzy 2 months ago
I'm gonna try to make my last words just be "don't b******t nobody when you put my last words down, my last word is 'f**k' and you know it...F**K" then I'd die
Haywood Jablome 2 months ago
Chris Farley's final words were "Please don't leave me", as heard by the prostitute that promptly left him
DadManBlues 2 months ago
'While I was alive, I took care of everything except death; now I have to die, and I am unprepared for that.' - Caesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander the Sixth 'The last word is for the fools who have not spoken enough.' - Karl Marx 'I have not yet told you everything I saw.' - Marco Polo
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